Economy of Heart: The Truth of Changing Times
Having wandered and helped people on the streets I was always most amused by street preachers. Shouting out their truth only to drive most people away.
Preaching is not an effective tool to push truth, becuase most people use it to "PUSH" truth. If you push a person, you push them further away from you.
We are living in times of change. This means many many people are actively trying to push their change, their truth onto others. Street preachers have moved to the news and papers. Western Media is a shouting match where "truth" gets lost in the din of everyone pushing their core values outwards.
- Shouting out truth is a poor method in transmitting truth.
I am surprised at several simple truths.. the most important truth of our economic times being...
The economy isn't about truth, it's about power and manipulation.
We can display the truth all we want about the economy, it won't change people's minds when they are following larger economic trends.
We can show people the light... but it just blinds people who insist upon embracing darkness.
We sort through all the information to help us understand trends... nothing more. Trying to use truth to change the world ... just pushes others away from the truth in their discomfort of the truth, their discomfort of change itself...
The reality is yes it's all messed up... But at some point if you want to change it, ironically you just have to walk away from it so it can crumble and allow new growth to occur.
That is where we are now. Profits will be made in understanding this, and investors will bankrupt themselves thinking they can change the system from the inside out. Change will come but after the "truth" of today crumbles into being the past.
The other point is money is power, money is how people in this culture define themselves. People are 90% emotions 10% truth... so it only takes a little emotional arm twisting to have huge negative impact to one's statements... Don't fall into the trap of using negative emotions to push for positive change, Negative fear / emotions drive people to act in fear and produces negative results... which drives the money straight to those who wield the power in this case...
Just be aware of the unintended side effects of how "truth" is presented since being extra vocal right now may not help as we think it does. I mention all of this, since living in change, it is easy to get tempted and shout a little, trying to compete with all the street preachers in Western Media.
Let other's do the shouting, for they are just driving people back to the heart.
You see the easiest way of getting the word out on the truth of living to heart, is to live to an economy of the heart. This is not something we shout, it's something we live. In kindness , one person at a time we do create our new world.
As an aside here is a fun little video well done on how to help shift truth to a way people can embrace it
Namaste
4 comments:
I don't think people push their core values, they push the values that they think others want to hear so they can make money.
Every time one of these preachers gets caught with their pants down they prove how little they really believe what they are saying...
That is definitely another issue, where people use preaching for self gain
and it is strange, those who use preaching for self gain end up having flocks of so many thousands they fleece...
But this is a topic for a different post.
A really good post that offers sage advice.
:) thanks Trey
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